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FIRST DATE
When you talked about me to your friends You said that you'd never see me again And I...well I overheard It didn't hurt my feelings, no it was nothing like that I just thought you'd have a little more tact And I...well I was perturbed So I went by your house a couple of times I guess you weren't home so I dropped a dime And I...well I was disturbed And yeah the message I left it was kind of long And some of the things that I said they could be taken wrong But I felt they were deserved Still I wonder why you wouldn't give it a second try So when your attorney called on that fateful day I was kind of at a loss of what I should say So I said nothing at all And when he informed me that I shouldn't phone or come around again I didn't understand, I mean I thought we were friends But he said that there was a law That's when I sent the first letter, remember? How did it start? There was that line about how you had stolen my heart And I was ready to share But the police said there was a problem with that too And that when I decided exactly what I had to do And I...well I was prepared Still I wonder why you wouldn't give it a second try Bridge Untie the lie I've told many times before Search for the sky. Blind, I can't see anymore Fighting the time, borrow a piece of innocence Caught in the crime, wondering where it went So I'm seeing someone new now I think the two of you would hit it off But it's hardly an issue since we rarely even talk But still I think of you And the things that I learned from the time that we spent Like how to forgive and almost forget And the shape of your shrug and the furrow of your brow And the things that we could share if you only knew how But like I said, I'm seeing someone new Still I wonder why you wouldn't give it a... Still I wonder why you wouldn't give it a... Still I wonder why you wouldn't give it a second try DOMESTICATED "You know what I mean," she screamed and dreamed Of putting his head through a window The vice at the door to implore To move fast cause he knew that she'd move slow "It's like mother taught," then he thought To shut up cause he knew that his head hurt With a decadent grin, spit on his chin He reached and he tore at her red skirt Chorus I know you want a part of me Add this name to your misery Locked and forgot in a memory He gathered the truth and the proof And is hid with the kid in the corner She pouted her lip when he split But came quick on a feeling of power "I don't want to share what you care." And the slap smacked back like a black cat In the back of the truck they were stuck Till the cop showed up with a kickback Chorus "Don't act like a child," and he smiled And compiled all the strength he could muster But a feeling of fear, drew him near To the thought that he never could trust her And with the raise of hand, made him a man And the eyes of a child would fixate But the body was cold, when she told "I'm not the person you thought you could complicate." Chorus HOLLYWOOD REWRITE Carol was bothered by the claim of her name Set forth from the palace of misery’s domain Offered to function as history’s parade Of lies told to Many times over she fought for the right Of charlatan coffers that promised delight Inside of nowhere the curse of insight Said good-bye to Chorus I know you’ll follow me I know you Starlets entreated with serpentine smiles Held on to whispers of satisfied guiles Seasons of reason fold inward and sigh And lies told to Humor’s dramatically sold to the crowd Propped up on its hunch and its frustrated bow Courtesy calls for a blameworthy frown Say good-bye to Chorus TRAVEL TIPS I guess I should be embarrassed I guess I expect too much Your guess was not quite as good as mine Left feeling in flux Snaked through the center of everything You touch it lingers and tried too hard If you could steal you’d be penniless Left willing to starve Chorus Part of the foreign feeling Leads you to common ground Part of the foreign feeling Weights you down Time travels upward so serious Dead winter blows, makes your heart grown cold The implications are perilous Try digging for gold A psychic hand promised promises Fortune awaits in a shame filled room The galley slaves plot their prophecy Set sail by the moon Chorus When she comes finally physical Rough and ready your headstrong twist The innuendo is pitiful Walk away with your hint Chorus BEST INTENTIONS We’re not so far away from this island We’ll pass seventeen days in this silence You wrote in big letters, “It’s not in my nature to be so incredibly shy.” Your hand in my blouse and the buttons you fumble, I sigh The birds went Belfast the train took up past the future of sinister pride A stop in the canyon is what they demanded of time Chorus Fear not, You know I want the best for you Tears drop, it’s true I can’t be there for you We’re not so far away from this island We’ll pass seventeen days in this silence The telegram office, the plains and the prompt Swiss Your vision was screwed to unwind Collectable tatters of miniscule matters outshine We’ll probably see what became of the car crash Your father subscribed to the times As if there’s a doubt when the coroner out of his mind Chorus IT RAINS A LOT She woke up with a scar On her arm And didn’t know why or where she had been The panic stopped At her head and said, "You better get out of this bed." He woke up with a fist In his face Which he knew he deserved but seemed out of place In the dark? Of the day? He thought he was sure but… Justice sought by anger hits the spot She wore it like a cross On her chest The almost dead girl with dirt on her dress At the party Hard to tell To think what she thought when she fell And then he got the job And was thrilled His name like a club and he fit the bill Kind of slow Not to fault But he’d not act the same when the drugs wore off Justice sought by anger hits the spot They finished in a sweat And a curse With him on his knees and she quotes a verse About the pain That they sent And would return if they didn’t repent And when they agreed They were through The tear like a nod and the blood was a clue And with a tear And a hack They cornered the thing they took back Justice sought by anger hits the... Justice sought by anger hits the... Justice sought by anger hits the spot SUBJECTS In an upstate park in a broken town A child sits like a man With a crowded face and an occupied mind Delusions run rampant like the leaves on the ground And a loss so great for only so many years Makes me wonder in tears that go by If the question is met and affection is lost If this is my challenge then why should I try Cause I understand all of your sympathy And I understand everything you never meant for me And I understand just about everything And why can’t you understand this is what makes me happy Here in the eyes of a stone and a rose Lies the time and the judge of a queen The faults in the rhymes by an innocent man Leave the quest to go by and the blame left unseen To a path in the light to a change in the mind To this request that haunts to surprise Till one days loss is this impossible task If this is my challenge then why should I try Cause I understand all of your sympathy And I understand everything you never meant to me And I understand just about everything And why can’t you understand this is what makes me happy QUICK TO JUDGE I know that you want to celebrate Aggression, you left in I’d go but you make me hesitate A lesson, second guess’in I’d show that you could intimidate With practiced sorrow I’d throw the deal that could complicate A confession, sole possession of you Imply the feel of experience Telling tall tales, setting short sails Inspire a mark of indifference Falter short ways, spending long days Inside the wheel of your confidence Turned out you’d borrowed Denied the right of your competence A reflection of obsession for you I know you want to celebrate I know you won’t let me down You talk like you’re going to conquer me Your wish, your dream, inside me now So sad, a life like a stupid song Too trite, too long, too foolishly proud Which way can you say that you were wrong? Just leave and believe your fallacy A smile of denial is your company A collection of rejection for you Walk away and play your part differently Pick the first one, I’m the second key Display your mind like the trinity Fixing fortune drowned in history If God saved a life inside everything You’d hold out till tomorrow Some day what you what say betrays what you bring A protection from affection for you PEERLESS Dressed in the pale blue pattern light that can mystify She was dumped with the judgement in bones that can justify With her hair caked down in the back you knew it was chemistry But the fiction unfolds as he told you it’s his guarantee Chorus And you suffocate with first sight Not on my side And you sleep with your hands tied Love breaks the bond in me With a walk that could talk and it screamed, "Embellish me!" She was dumped with the judgement of morals that couldn’t see Beyond the curve of a word that sounds like an enemy Impaled when they failed as the facts began to disagree Chorus Fears were confirmed when the life exploded in heated hate And she was dumped with the judgement of a mob that could celebrate Ignorance that pretends to befriend The value of morality to an end Testified to the lies as the truth refused to bend Chorus DEAR MARTHA Start again try to think differently Wait for words, I am an industry Quick to kick models that disagree Kisses soft finishing heart of stone Foolish talk, spirit is coming home Nothing lost, blinded by what is known Dear Martha Took more than your share Avidly search for a better life Beautiful steal like a parasite Sensual smile and then a strike Took his hand hard with a Mason ring Got confused what you’d read in a magazine Whisked away sheltered from what they’d seen Dear Martha Took more than your share Cigarette colder than human touch Warned against women that think too much Bad advice this is what got you cut Good to bleed once a week feeling fine Fraught with doom prudence is justified Penetrate systems that speak unkind Dear Martha Took more than your share UP Cleaned up Sparks events in me Fed up And you sigh like a quiet casualty End up With a part of me And the joke of inspiration Quotes a quiet voice Let’s hope A passion for weakness Could ruin you Ruined me Fooled again Took my dignity and then Tossed and lost without a friend Reached the depths entwinded Feel my heart maligned Language stalls and falls within Tore it down And ruined you I am hopeless but you’ve staked your life on me Freedom taunts you in your misery Tattered and broken as the flames lick fear In you heart I disappear Made up Told a thousand lies Paid up In your eyes I’d had enough Fought the simple life Ignored the ways you’re wise Cleared the air to my surprise It ruined you ALWAYS IN THE SNOW Calling forward to the pathway coming towards you As we darken ourselves and from behind Forest ringing henchmen bringing all that baits you As my eyes go down and simmer in blistering skies Calling forward to the pathway of the fields of casting sorrow As my creeping sympathy childs into the fall Greener shadows of the other, polished bleakness and brought over To show me so and prove that I am wrong Surprising quiet as you wake me and the broken waters take me To the spirits of help that made me king While bathing in your sleepness and the dead await my cheating Do you blush for me or just hide from your mind Bread and bile and your weakness shelter unbecoming smiles Asking company to deliver us unkind But playful actions caught and charming eternalized by our hearts warming Lay down to rest knowing our lives lie shared and far LIFE IN A BOX Life in a box isn't bad as you think I've got plenty to keep me occupied Life in a box isn't bad as you might think...I survive When pushed into the ashes of a cardboard plight Apologies to friends I never knew And terror never seemed so far away I survive Allied with failure, eight hundred times a suspect She puts a foot in my door, in her mouth A mild chill, a helpless grasp on your health...I survive A picture of starlight, a stack so high it dares to fall A letter of placement, the feeling this seems so absurd The fearlessness and talkative comfort that you steal from me...I survive And we explore the function for the trap they thought they had in store But that's just fine with Cause rooms you call are boxes all with trials filled and doomed to fall...I survive Life in a box isn't bad as you think I've got plenty to keep me occupied Life in a box isn't bad as you might think...I survive A BIT ABOUT YOU I wonder a bit about this dream I wonder a bit about you And I wonder what went wrong When it came true I think a bit about this life I think it's a bit hard to take And when she smiles all I think is Please don't wake Chorus Cause when you dream Dreams are broke in two And when you try You don't try hard enough And when you dream Dreams are broke in two And when you don't try Trying's good enough Feelings get hurt too easily Feelings get neglected And when I'm not feeling my best I'm desperate Chorus I know a bit about you And the comfort that you can afford But it's failing me But it's failing me But it's failing me Chorus INVITATION A warm December morning Sets me down beside your eyes A chapter, a verse in my mind Opens it's pages again Searching the fields of unwritten laws The cast of thirteen in your ear Coming home could never ever be this good So I come to you instead Tap this source and fill this void Never be subtle again Lost to a night how may years ago I had to count all of them What I add up and you take out Leaves something unspoken behind Claim this face and touch this hand I've got a story to tell What we expect from this empty voice And I can't even try What we expect from this empty choice And I can't even try What we expect from this empty voice And I can't even try What we expect from this empty choice And I can't even try And I can't even try And I can't even And I can't even And I get even And I get even IN TEN DAYS Wake up to the empty Cross your heart and hope Breathing life into a vacum Open up this room is full of smoke And she tosses the problem about in her mind And wonders how this could end sweet The answer, maybe, sleeps far away Nine pounds to the ounce in ten days Try to make up for eight long months Hidden behind those soft eyes Was a smile and a snap and a twitch Ah Wednesday's expectations Fell to the ground with a shrug He's glad he asked again And she tosses the problem about in her bed And wonders how this end could meet The answer sleeps far away Confused in fashion Misused in time And he walks slowly Can she keep up? Can she keep up? And she tosses the problem about in her mind And wonders how this could end sweet The answer, the answer, sleeps far away And she tosses the problem about in her bed And wonders how this end could meet The answer sleeps far away WAITING FOR THE 31st Why can't tomorrow be Monday In fields of gold in a foriegn country A path for her to take And I wait and I wait The coldest morning Is the one we spent together Until the afternoon In her room With an elegant sigh She could cry My name A scratch on her nose And a gesture that tells me I don't have to speak so much I'm crushed She forgives me, she forgives me With an elegant sigh She could cry My name Hardly the caress of a hand Barely the breath of a whisper Nearly the touch of their lips And he's gone No one is left behind Only a brief seperation Now the last week Seems the hardest, seems the hardest With an desperate sigh I cry Her name Why can't tomorrow be Monday In fields of gold in a foriegn country A path for her to take And I wait and I wait The warmest morning Is the one we'll spend together Until the afternoon In my room With an elegant sigh She could cry My name VISITOR'S DAY I wrote a stupid note On the back of a photo you sent me It claimed and I couldn't cope Can't have the blues when you're feeling so empty I shut the bathroom door Kept off the light tried not to wake you With it just ten minutes more I thought I could finally break you Hair tied up tight like a fist Underneath the oldest oak in the yard You’d never need to insist Saying yes was never really that hard And your warning came out so clever Meet my past and you’ll share a laugh Thin ink that stained on your finger Crushed the fear that came up so fast Chorus When the day becomes dawn I know you’ll feel better As far as the mess goes, it’s best to forget’er And the fury that brought us here don’t regret her As a serious oversight Overstate the word if it’s rescue I never thought of it twice Try to fix what’s queer in the mirror Turned my niceness to not nice My arms stretched out like a martyr Bruised black to feed the excuse Calmed down the thoughts coming clearer Verbalized to share the abuse Chorus Bridge I know what’s wrong inside of you I think I’ll change a thing or two Transformed into somebody new That I don’t know Think back to the day that we parted Dry eyes never saw things so clear Weighed down, the car barely started Thought the you’d never get out of here When the day becomes dawn I know you’ll feel better As far as the mess goes, it’s best to forget ‘er And the fury that brought us here don’t regret her When is happens again we’ll deny it together [And it always happens again] |